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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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